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MeSH Heading: Network Meta-Analysis as Topic
Tree Number(s): E05.318.370.500.501
Unique ID: D000071076
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000071076
Annotation: for general design, methodology, economics, etc. of meta-analysis studies; a different heading NETWORK META-ANALYSIS is used for reports of a specific network meta-analysis study
Scope Note: Works about meta-analyses of randomized trials in which estimates of comparative treatment effects are visualized and interpreted from a network of interventions that may or may not have been evaluated directly against each other. Common considerations in network meta-analysis include conceptual and statistical heterogeneity and incoherence.
Entry Term(s): Mixed Treatment Meta-Analysis; Multiple Treatment Comparison Meta-Analysis
Previous Indexing: Meta-Analysis as Topic (2008-2016); Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic (2008-2016)
Public MeSH Note: 2025; was NETWORK META-ANALYSIS 2017-2024
History Note: 2025 (2017)
Date Established: 2017/01/01
Date of Entry: 2024/09/17
Revision Date: 2024/09/17

Concept UI: M000613060
Scope Note: Works about meta-analyses of randomized trials in which estimates of comparative treatment effects are visualized and interpreted from a network of interventions that may or may not have been evaluated directly against each other. Common considerations in network meta-analysis include conceptual and statistical heterogeneity and incoherence.
Terms: Network Meta-Analysis as Topic Preferred Term
Term UI T001144796
Date08/06/2024
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2025); Mixed Treatment Meta-Analysis
Term UI T000892691
Date12/26/2015
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2017); Multiple Treatment Comparison Meta-Analysis
Term UI T000892690
Date12/26/2015
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2017)

Network Meta-Analysis as Topic MeSH Descriptor Data 2025